Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia PREVIEW & PREDICTION 20/06/2018

URUGUAY VS SAUDI ARABIA PREVIEW & PREDICTION

This Wednesday afternoon at the Rostov Arena in the city of Rostov the South American team of Uruguay comes out by a victory that allows them to secure their qualification to the second round of the 2018 World Cup Russia, when they face a modest selection of Saudi Saudi, in game corresponding to Group A of the mundialista competition.

Uruguay:

Those led by “Professor” Óscar Tabarez had a very poor debut against Egypt but to the happiness of the whole town “Charrúa” appeared the defender of Atletico Madrid, José Giménez for an accurate header to put the 1-0 in his favor in the that was the last play of the commitment and in this way they are second in Group A below Russia, but only because of the difference of goals between these teams, so this Wednesday they have nothing more to gain and thus be the first South American team to get their qualification to the knockout stages in the 2018 World Cup, and for this Tabarez despite how low they were at their level Luis Suarez and Edison Cavani will again trust them both in the field, to get a categorical triumph that also allows cutting the difference of goals with Russia.

Saudi Arabia:

Meanwhile, the return to a World Cup after 12 years was not the expected for those led by Juan Antonio Pizzi as they were defeated by a resounding 5-0 against Russia and with it the Arab team not only added its second worst defeat in a World Cup remembering that in the World Cup Korea & Japan 2002 were beaten 8-0 by Germany, but with this defeat Saudi Arabia added a streak of four consecutive defeats.

The results in their World Cup participations are not very fruitful for a Saudi Arabia that has not only lost its last three World Cup games receiving a total of ten goals and without converting any goal in those three games, but totaling 11 games without winning in a World Cup where nine were defeats.

The truth is that if the Arab team wants to stay alive in Russia 2018, Pizzi will have to do a hard psychological job to recover the confidence of the players who are hard hit by the last consecutive defeats, which have even led to their maximum referent In attack such as Mohammad Al-Sahlawi could not score in any of the ten preparatory games and it is speculated that he will be replaced by Muhannad Assiri.

The game on Wednesday will be the third match between these teams, the first two were in friendly character games, being the first of them in 2002 with a Uruguayan win by 3-2, while the last was in 2014 that ended with a tie at one goal.

Possible alignments:

Uruguay: Muslera; Cáceres, Godin, Giménez, Varela; Rodríguez, Vecino, Bentancur, Nandez; Cavani, Suarez.

Saudi Arabia: Muaiouf; Al-Harbi, Omar Hawsawi, Osama Hawsawi, Al-Shahrani; Otayf, Al-Shehri, Al-Jassim, Al-Faraj, Al-Dawsari; Muhannad Assiri.


PREDICTION: Over 2.5 goals @ 1.57

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